
crikey.com published a response
by by ALSA committee member Geoff Russell recently (21/4) to an article
in the Sunday Age in defense of red meat. If you are not a crikey.com subscriber, you can signup for a free trial and view the
piece. Is that a plug from Geoff? Absolutely.
Animal Liberation SA commissioned a radio ad which went to air last Monday (10th November) but was pulled by the station after 1 session because of 2 complaints. Visit our dairy cruelty site and hear the ad for yourself.
Quarterly Essay 31 (at newsagents) carried a major essay by Tim Flannery on energy, climate change and agriculture. Quarterly Essay 32 is now on sale with a range of responses, including one by ALSA's Geoff Russell to Flannery's support for "abundant meat". Read Russell's response to Flannery here.
A guest post on BravenewClimate.com This post explaining the structure of the world's food system. The UN Food and Agriculture organisation estimates that 1/3 of all crop land (417 million hectares) is devoted to animal feed in addition to 3,400 million hectares of grazing land. This provides just 17% of global calories.
The newly re-elected head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Rajendra Pachauri tells people to radically shift their diet to curb global warming.
Financial commentator Alan Kohler tells people to eat less meat in this interesting article on the last installment from the Garnaut Review for the same reasons.
Professor of Climate Change at Adelaide University, Barry Brook has a guest post from Animal Liberation committee member Geoff Russell on how meat eating has disrupted to global Nitrogen cycle
Read the submission to the Garnaut Review by Professor of Climate Change at Adelaide University Barry Brook, with Peter Singer and Geoff Russell of AL (SA). It demonstrates the clear need to make deep reductions in Global and Australian livestock numbers. Australasian Science also covered the issue of livestock methane recently and why Australia's livestock generate more climate warming than all of our coal fired power stations.
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The swine flu now spreading around the world is a mixture of 3 different flu. The starting point is a swine flu first found on a US factory farm in 1998.
The factory farmed pork industry is the largest supplier of meat in the world and the most disgusting in its treatment of animals. It is also a major polluter. The pig industry in Australia isn't as large as its overseas cousins, but it runs on the same principles.
Why has the Australian Government spent $600 million dollars in prevention measures. Download an information leaflet that gives you the answers. If you want more details, see the bird flu book on-line and find out how the global chicken and pig industries are threatening a global pandemic, similar to that which killed 50 million people in 1918.
According to the world's acknowledged cancer experts in last years World Cancer Research Fund report, the answer is a clear YES, and the CSIRO knows it. Read what the board knew and how they allowed the promotion of a diet which causes cancer. CSIRO author Peter Clifton has now admitted in an article in The Age on May 13, 2008, that people on the Total Wellbeing Diet could have an increased cancer rate of some 30%.
Download Learn about the full climate impact of Australia's obsession with cattle. Our 28 million cattle are damaging the climate, devestating our biodiversity, and milking the Murray.
Where does our water?Download this leaflet and find out how the beef and dairy industries are taking the lion's share of the nation's water.
Download our PDF presentation on why your diet has a bigger global warming impact than what you drive. Australia's livestock methane emissions will have a bigger impact on global warming over the next 20 years than the emissions of all our coal fired power stations.
Download this leaflet, read it and change your diet to help the world environment.